inertial platform

inertial platform

[i′nər·shəl ′plat‚fȯrm]

(navigation)

In an inertial navigator a platform that maintains sensing instruments in a precise known angular orientation in space.

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inertial platform

Inertial platform.

A rigid, gyro-stabilized frame on which accelerometers are mounted.

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